Russell Napier

Russell Napier

출생 : 1910-11-28, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

사망 : 1974-08-19

약력

Russell Napier was born in Perth, Western Australia. Originally a lawyer, Napier was active as an actor on the stage as early as 1936; on the screen, from 1947 to 1974, playing both comedic and dramatic roles in both cinema and television. Notably, he starred in a liveBBC television production of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine in 1949; still photographs of this production exist, but no actual footage.

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Russell Napier

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Twisted Nerve
Professor Fuller
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
Nobody Runs Forever
Leeds
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.
The Blood Beast Terror
Landlord
A Scotland Yard Detective must investigate a series of murders perpetrated by a giant blood-sucking moth that can take human form.
Man in the Middle
Colonel Thompson
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.
The Hole In The Ground
Narrator
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation, who's duties included the issuing of public warnings of any nuclear missile strike and the subsequent fallout.
Francis of Assisi
Brother Elias
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
The Mark
2nd Plain Clothes Officer
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
Hell Is a City
Superintendent
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.
The Angry Silence
Thompson
A young factory worker stands alone against a proposed strike.
비스마르크호를 격침하라
Air Vice Marshal (uncredited)
1941년, 영국 해군은 독일의 유보트와 레이더가 수송로를 장악하는 바람에 군수품을 전달받지 못해 어려움을 겪는다. 그해 5월, 영국 정보국은 독일 비스마르크호가 북대서양으로 출항하려고 한다는 정보를 입수하고 조나단 셰퍼드 함장(케네스 무어 분)에게 비스마르크호를 격침시키라는 임무를 내린다. 아내와 함정을 잃은 상실감으로 괴로워하던 셰퍼드 함장은 새로운 임무를 맡고 최선을 다하기로 결심한다. 또한 대적할 인물이 예전에 자신의 함정을 파괴한 독일 해독이라는 사실을 알고는 이번엔 반드시 이길 거라 각오를 다진다. 영국은 대서양의 해군력을 총동원하여 비스마르크호의 출항을 저지하려 온힘을 쏟아 붓는다. 전함과 순양함 등 가용 가능한 전력을 집결시키고 철통같은 레이다망을 동원하여 비스마르크호의 항로를 추적한다. 몇 번의 교전으로 영국군 거함 후드호를 격침하고 순양함들에 막대한 피해를 입힌 비스마르크호는 영국군을 더욱 긴장시키고 이들은 어떻게 해서든지 비스마르크호를 막기 위해 안간힘을 쓰는데...
Son of Robin Hood
Squire Myles
Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.
Tread Softly Stranger
Potter
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
타이타닉호의 비극
Capt. Stanley Lord
모든 면에서 세계 최고를 자랑하며 영국인들에게 자부심을 주었던 타이타닉 호는 1912년 리버풀을 출발해 뉴욕으로 처녀 항해를 시작한다. 대부호와 귀족들인 1등실 승객들과 그 보다는 초라하고 옹색하지만 짙은 인간미를 지닌 2등실, 3등실 승객들, 그리고 모든 선원들까지 합해 2,200명에 달하는 사람들을 태우고 항해를 하던 타이타닉은 몇 차례의 다른 배들로부터 항로에 얼음과 빙산이 있다는 경고를 받지만 이를 무시하고 항해하다 빙산에 부딪쳐 침몰하는 운명에 처하게 된다. '가라앉지 않는 배'라고 자부하며 항해하던 이 세계 최고의 초호화 여객선 타이타닉호가 속수무책으로 침몰하는 동안 사람들은 죽음의 사투를 벌이게 되는데...
The Shiralee
Parker
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
Robbery Under Arms
Banker Green
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their way to Melbourne with the proceeds of a recent raid, the brothers meet and romance the Morrison sisters, Kate and Jean, whom they eventually marry; but just as they are poised to start a new life in America, Captain Starlight and his gang arrive in town, planning a raid at the local bank.
The Case of The Smiling Widow
Inspector Duggan
From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.
The Last Man to Hang
Detective Sgt. Bolton
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Guilty?
Inspector Hobson
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
A Town Like Alice
Jack Burns
In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
The Man in the Road
Scotland Yard Supt. Davidson
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.
The Narrowing Circle
Sir Henry Dimmock
A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.
A Time to Kill
Inspector Simmons
A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper journalist pursue the truth.
Little Red Monkey
Supt. John Harrington
Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the same time that Bill Locklin, a special officer from the United States State Department, arrives to oversee the transfer of Professor Leon Dushenko, a Russian scientist who as fled the U.S.S.R. An attempt is made on Dushenko's life with a monkey's paw-print found at the scene.
The Brain Machine
Insp. Durham
A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.
The Unholy Four
Insp. Treherne
Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case.
Conflict of Wings
Wg. Cmr. Rogers
In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.
36 Hours
Detective at Ann's Apartment (Uncredited)
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
The Saint's Return
Col. Stafford
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
Stolen Face
Det. Cutler
A doctor changes a woman's face to match the one that broke his heart. Trouble starts when his love returns.
Blind Man's Bluff
Stevens
Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders. But when a boarding house becomes the headquarters for a criminal gang, it is Pendrell who cracks the case.
The Time Machine